In Our Guts
Two television shows' very different outlooks on war and prisoners of war.
Shadow Play
In Our Guts
Two television shows' very different outlooks on war and prisoners of war.
Book Reviews
Future Selves
Mark Blitz looks at our possible post-human future.
Lights, Camera – Treason?
Lauren Weiner reviews Allan Ryskind's book on the HUAC.
Who Let the Dogs In?
Modern man may owe his existence to man's best friend.
Four-Horse Parlay
As important players in the government they had brought about, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and Washington cashed their winning tickets on the four-horse parlay that secured the Constitution.
Secularism’s Christian Roots
Larry Siedentop exposes a baleful misunderstanding between Christianity and secularism, the former failing to acknowledge the legitimacy of its offspring, the latter forgetting its own origin or, worse, forging a fake genealogy that traces to the “pagan†world.
There Will Be War
The U.S. has experienced a period of nearly 150 years of ascendant, then preeminent, power in international relations. Harold W. Rood might remind us that this system is by design and in its operation intended as an obstacle to the ambitions of those who would challenge it and an affront to those who oppose its fundamental principles.
The First American
Robert Middlekauff has written a morally generous and politically shrewd account of how politically formative was George Washington, even before his two terms as president.
God and Man at Philadelphia
Gregg Frazer reviews Steven Green's ambitious book that breaks some new ground in the study of religion and the American Founding.
The Head and the Heart
As long as Tea Party views prevail in the heart of the conservative coalition, it cannot create a governing majority in 21st-century America.
Are Families Finished?
Lifelong dependence on the state is increasingly common for single mothers and their children.
Unmasker Unmasked
Matthew Stewart is exercised over the effort of Christian historians and apologists to depict the leaders of the American Revolution as “paragons of piety, even miniature deities,” thus disguising the truth that the founders were deist
Foreign Policy on the Rebound
Americans should not choose their foreign policy on the rebound.
Deep Conscience
Douglas Kries looks at J. Budziszewski's interpretation of Thomas Aquinas's eight questions on the law in the Summa Theologiae.
In the Cave
Carlos Fraenkel’s Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of five cultures, guided by the author’s efforts to teach philosophy in each of them.
Magna Carta and Us
James Stoner looks at 800 years of the Magna Carta.
In Madisons’s Shade
Joseph Tartakovsky reviews three books on James Madison.
The Subprime Directive
A review of Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again, by Peter J. Wallison
From the Editor's Desk
The Outsiders’ Appeal
The good news is that the outsider faction remains keen on the Constitution that underlies these miscreant branches. The bad news is that it is not so keen on the conservative movement in its existing, and maybe not even in its best, form.
Essays
Full Bloom
Allan Bloom and the state of the American mind.
San Francisco Values
How the Left learned to love the super-rich.
Beyond Hope? Beyond Change?
Black and white when Obama is over.
Peter William Schramm December 23,1946 – August 16, 2015
Peter William Schramm December 23,1946 - August 16, 2015
Correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence Fall 2015